“Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill,” directed by Jarvis Antonio Green, has eight dates in the Upper Valley from May 24 through June 3 (four apiece at The Engine Room in WRJ and Artistree’s Grange Theatre in South Pomfret), plus another four in Burlington! Here’s a peek that JAG Productions released today:

Photographed in West Lebanon, N.H., on Feb. 1, 2018, Jarvis Antonio Green is the founding producing artistic director for JAG Productions and BarnArts Center for the Arts. (Valley News – Geoff Hansen) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Jarvis Antonio Green, founder of JAG Productions, posted these photos from his trip to Connecticut this weekend to accept this year’s Regional Award for Outstanding Achievement in the American Theatre from the New England Theatre Conference.

The award recognizes JAG Productions, which recently rounded off its inaugural season, for pursuing theatrical excellence and for its contributions to the New England arts scene. The New England Theatre Conference, a Hamden, Conn.-based nonprofit industry group, presents this award each year as part of its mission to support and celebrate American theater.

Furthermore, the theater company — the first black theater company in the Upper Valley which aims to be the first black LORT theater in the country — is in the second stage of a three-part fundraising drive.